Marine Systems archive

Data Processing

ION Geophysical delivers a full suite of seismic data processing services through a seasoned team of experts who share an uncompromising commitment to provide the highest quality image.

Pre-Processing

By enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio, ION's GX Technology group is able to optimize seismic data for advanced pre-stack time and depth imaging.

Advanced Imaging

As one of the industry leaders in pre-stack depth migration and reverse time migration (RTM), ION's GX Technology group provides advanced land and marine imaging to solve the toughest imaging challenges.

Full-wave Imaging

By utilizing full azimuth and multicomponent data, ION's GX Technology full-wave imaging services help E&P operators solve exploration challenges and reduce drilling risk by providing a more complete understanding of the reservoir.

Land Processing

ION’s GX Technology group has the tools, knowledge, and experience to help E&P operators better understand the geology of unconventional reservoirs including shale and tight gas plays, enabling them to maximize exploration and production.

Marine Processing

Projects and Centers Map

Take a tour of our processing centers and projects. ION’s GXT has teams of experts strategically located throughout the Americas, Europe, and West Africa.

Ocean Bottom Processing

Arctic Processing

Reservoir Services

ION’s Reservoir Services' team provides a range of offerinngs, from individual services such as simultaneous inversions or pore pressure prediction, to fully integrated interpretations including selection of optimized well locations.

Unconventional Reservoirs

ION's Reservoir Solutions team is uniquely qualified to help E&P operators understand the geology of unconventional reservoirs, including shale plays, and to help maximize exploration and production of these reservoirs.

Interpretation

ION's Reservoir Solutions team is dedicated to developing and implementing proven and innovative interpretation techniques from geologic analysis and lithologic mapping to fracture detection and production optimization.

LibyaSPAN

Arctic

BeaufortSPAN East

BeaufortSPAN consists of over 23,000 km of deeply imaged regional data that has fundamentally changed the understanding of the production potential of the MacKenzie Delta, Beaufort Passive, and the Banks Island Basin area.

Beaufort East Air Mag

The BeaufortSPAN East Potential Fields Program is an airborne magnetic survey that provides a regional framework spanning the area west of Banks Island to the Southern Sverdrup Basin.

ChukchiSPAN

By tying into the five critical wells in the Chukchi Basin, ChukchiSPAN helps define the resource potential of the region's petroleum systems from the Barrow Arch in the east to the Russian border in the west.

Northeast GreenlandSPAN

Asia Pacific

ION Geophysical offers a series of seismic data programs in the Asia Pacific region that provides E&P operators the insight into the petroleum systems of the region.

ArafuraSPAN

ArafuraSPAN provides a better understanding of the Arafura Basin potential source rock intervals, and delivers insights into the petroleum system structures, reservoirs, and seal mechanisms of the area.

BightSPAN

BightSPAN is a regional geologic study comprised of 2D seismic data mapping the active petroleum systems and identifying potential limits of new and existing plays.

JavaSPAN

JavaSPAN is a regional seismic data program and geologic study that extends from Madura Island, East Java to south of Sulawesi and north into the Makassar Straits.

NatunaSPAN

Located offshore northern Indonesia, NatunaSPAN comprises high-quality, 2D seismic data designed to examine new and existing play types.

WestraliaSPAN

Europe and Middle East

ION's GeoVentures team has designed unique programs in Europe and the Middle East that provide an improved understanding of the geologic evolution and basin architecture of these regions.

Northeast AtlanticSPAN

Northeast AtlanticSPAN is a regional 2D seismic survey that provides a highly consistent dataset designed to image the less explored areas recognized to contain hydrocarbon potential beneath thick basalts.

PolandSPAN

PolandSPAN is multi-phased program that will provide the foundation of integrated geologic knowledge and a consistent seismic framework from which to build future studies.

Niobrara Shale

Mississippi Lime

South America

ION's GeoVentures team custom-designed seismic programs that provide a holistic understanding of the petroleum systems off the coasts of Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and in the areas of the southern Caribbean and northern margin of South America.

ArgentineSPAN

ArgentineSPAN provides and improved understanding of the geologic evolution of the Argentine Atlantic margin and its deep basin architecture.

Brazil

The programs off the coast of Brazil provide a comprehensive understanding of Brazil's highly productive petroleum systems.

CaribeSPAN

CaribeSPAN is a basin-wide, regional seismic data program and geologic study consisting of approximately 11,000 km of high-quality, depth-migrated data.

ColombiaSPAN

Designed to deliver superior insight into the geologic evolution and basin architecture of the region, ColombiaSPAN provides a regional 2D seismic framework of the offshore area of Colombia.

PeruSPAN

PeruSPAN is a program designed to acquire multi-client, 2D seismic data to improve understanding of the region's tectonics as well as new and existing play types offshore Peru.

UruguaySPAN

UruguaySPAN provides a coherent seismic dataset across the Punta del Este Basin and provides a tie to Argentina and Brazil.

GuyanaSPAN

GuyanaSPAN in new program that is another step in providing contiguous regional data coverage from the East Caribbean to Tierra del Fuego.

Articles

Including all things seismic in the oil & gas industry, the articles in this section discuss everything from seismic data processing techniques to the latest acquisition technology and more.

Abstracts and Papers

ION’s Abstracts and Technical Papers cover a wide range of topics written by our in-house industry experts detailing the latest theories, research, and conclusions on some of the industry's hottest topics.

Case Studies

ION’s Case Studies tell the stories of our problem solving approach and applications of technology and provide a deeper dive into the capabilities of our diverse team of people and experts.

Training and Support

Contact ION for information about training and support for our marine acquisition systems, Concept Systems command and control software, and GMG's MESA software.

Marine Imaging Systems Training

Check out the ION Geophysical course lists for Marine Imaging Systems, and book training or find out more about customized courses.

Concept Systems Training

Check out the ION Geophysical course lists for Concept Systems, and book training or find out more about customized courses.

Marine Repairs and Spare Parts

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Multimedia

ION’s digital media library includes videos, presentations that highlight the history of innovation, entreprenurial spirit, and culture of collaboration at ION.

Latest Video

This presentation from the 2014 SEG Conference and Exhibition, discusses in both theory and application the use of P-wave azimuthal velocity attributes for unconventional reservoir characterization workflows. It uses an Eastern United States case history from the Marcellus basin to illustrate the relationship potential between geoscience attributes like anisotropy and engineering information such as production data.